Numerous challenges face motorists these days as innocent vehicle owners are being harassed daily on our roads.
Thanks to the improvement on our roads but apart from miscreants, Police officers’ are at it again with their IG’s order; the FRSC has refused to issue the main licenses even after the expiration of the temporary licenses were given, yet they are busy stopping motorists at every street corner; and our Legislators are not responding quickly enough to repeal the obnoxious and outdated laws that the various IGs have been using to intimate law abiding citizens in the guise of enforcing security.

I like the current IG: slim and fit and intelligent but he shouldn’t antagonize those are helping him to surmount the current security challenge in the nation. It is akin to throwing away the baby with the bath water.
Our Legislators should please pass the bill that reflects current reality!

Below is an Excerpt from the Punch: “The order should be clarified so that police will target only opaque glass. A vehicle glass that is not tinted to the point of being opaque poses no security problem whatsoever. Only glass that is opaque, that prevents other road users or security personnel from seeing the occupants of the vehicle, presents a security challenge.
Vehicle manufacturers worldwide now tint virtually all cars, while Nigeria has no indigenous vehicle manufacturing base to speak of. Tinting vehicle glass became standard after years of research.
The option of obtaining the IG permit is no solution; it only adds another layer of paperwork and promotes corruption as evidenced by the activities of some corrupt policemen, who extort money from hapless motorists in the name of implementing the IG’s order.”
Source: PUNCH EDITORIAL, APRIL 25, 2013